> But at least we now get a dialog box showing the "desc" files being
> downloaded, albeit very slowly. Before there was just a "please wait"
> which gave no indication of whether the process had jammed or not.
>
Humm, here I can increase the length of the window in order to see which file
is beinf downloaded. Just press the left-mouse button on the right edge of
the window and increase it.

Just to be clear: I could do that once the system had been installed
and I was using YaST with a full graphical interface. I couldn't do it
when I accepted the option to add repositories during the install
process.